PM shoots down Rais' proposal

NST - The prime minister has shot down a suggestion to require women to obtain permission before travelling overseas on their own. Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said today that it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to introduce a regulation that compels women to obtain consent letters from employers or parents.
“The proposal to obtain consent will only create great difficulty, particularly for the Immigration authorities and also the women concerned,” he told Bernama.

Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Rais Yatim had proposed on Saturday that all women travelling out of the country alone be required to produce such letters in a move to prevent them from being duped into carrying drugs for international syndicates.
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